Saving the City The Challenge of Transforming a Modern Metropolis

When it was dreamed up in the early 2000s by a transportation bureaucrat with a quixotic dream of bringing tramways back to the streets of Montreal, few expected Projet Montréal to go anywhere. But a decade and a half later, the party was a grassroots powerhouse with an ambitious agenda that had taken power at city hall-after dumping its founder, barely surviving a divisive leadership campaign and earning the ire of motorists across Quebec.
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